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tonight on unsolved mysteries july 12 1996 spokane washington july 27 1996 atlanta georgia
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two vicious attacks separated by 15 days and 3 000 miles is there a connection in a special report we'll examine
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compelling evidence that may help solve the infamous olympic park bombing according to his ex-wife salvatore
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spinato had everything you'd expect a con artist to have charm a glib tongue and a secret past
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according to the police spinato has something extra a nasty temper and a taste for violence
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christina yumowski was still a toddler when doctors told her parents she would likely die before the age of 10.
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today christina is a happy healthy 12 year old did the sublime faith of father ralph
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diorio bring about her miraculous recovery join me for these intriguing cases perhaps you may be able to help solve a
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mystery [Music] [Music] the con artists we have profiles seem to share similar characteristics
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they are seductively charming totally convincing utterly without conscience but rarely violent
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some who know the debonair hustle you're about to meet say he also fits the type
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that is unless you cross him hello tony the usual table please well this looks very nice
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when beth smith met sal olivario she had one vulnerability oliverio found it and latched on
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ah thank you tony your best champagne i was um a single mother of two children financially i was very stable
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career-wise i was very stable and i i guess the only thing that was really missing in that equation was a husband
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and a father for my children you're gorgeous at the time beth was a computer
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consultant oliverio ran a physical therapy business best says he recounted in detail his
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distinguished navy career including two years as a pow in vietnam i can't understand unless you were over there
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he told me stories about how he was captured in vietnam how he was a prisoner of war how long were you a
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prisoner about two years he told these war stories to me he told him to my children
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you know my children thought of him as a war hero the only thing i knew was i was
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not gonna die there when he would tell these stories he would cry he would literally
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cry he would be very believable very believable [Music] beth fell in love with the man oliverio
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pretended to be war hero turned entrepreneur they were married in october of 1988.
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beth quit her own job to run oliveria's company she says that before long his charming
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facade had started to flake away the bottom line numbers always showed him in the red and it was just you know
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amazing i didn't understand how he thought he was going to pay these bills that he had coming in sal
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could you come in here for a minute yes dear you know i have been over and over these numbers and i just don't
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understand what's going on don't worry about it what do you mean don't worry
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about it where's the money gonna come from don't worry about i've got some
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checks coming in so what about the quarterly taxes you don't understand this business i'll take care of it it's
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not your problem it just started becoming obvious that things were not as they appeared to be
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before we were married at all in his personality and his background it changed he changed the true hymn came
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out the true hymn was stuffed in a box hidden in the basement beth found it shortly before her third
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wedding anniversary it had written on its lexington correctional institution and i'd never seen that before and i'd
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never heard that name before [Music] oliverio's untidy pass was spelled out in 20-point bold type
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so was his real name salvatore spinato he had done time in kentucky for bank fraud
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the article said he had run business scams for years allegedly duping one investor of more than a quarter of a
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million dollars when it suited him spinato had worked undercover for the fbi posing as a
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corrupt contractor in a widely publicized sting operation the people who had taken him into their
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confidence and had paid him bribes felt double-crossed when they found out he was working for the fbi and i think the
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fbi wasn't too sure at the end whether sal was leaking information to the other
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side for whatever reason nobody trusted him at the end of that investigation it told me that i was married to someone
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that was very deceptive very manipulative and someone i didn't know at all and everything that he told me about
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what he wanted and who he was was a lie beth moved out a few days later she filed for a marriage annulment based on
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spinato's fraudulent identity eventually they settled on a divorce we still maintained a
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relationship at that point because he he still owed me a significant amount of money and he was making payments on that
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not consistently and not by court order at all just occasionally he would call and say i have some extra money and give
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me a few hundred dollars towards what he owed me oh sal hi uh thanks for calling back in
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june of 1996 beth was preparing to leave town for 10 days her boyfriend greg had his own plans to
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be away for part of that time beth asked pinato to help keep an eye on her 17 year old son i got a favor to ask
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sal and my son had a had a good relationship when we were married and before we were married they got along
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well together i knew he was dating several other women so i assumed there was no other
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you know meaning that he could take from this at all and he said that was fine you know just
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you know that was fine he would do that he would look in on my on my son a couple days after beth left the
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country i got a call out of the blue from sal he identified himself as sal alvario and
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he called me and said that he needed to talk to me right away um that he was very concerned about her son that he was
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involved with some drugs yeah it's drugs the kid's gonna get in trouble she's out
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of the country i don't know what to do greg says it on july 3rd he met with spinato at a local convenience store
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he's going to get in trouble i had no reason to doubt him he he seemed genuine in what he was saying he
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was very concerned about uh his welfare his health and well-being it was his you
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know his stepson he said there's a house that i just bought around the corner
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that i'm in the process of remodeling would i mind just following him there and
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he'd give me some more information and there was some information that had to
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do with me so i agreed it's a great neighborhood i got the house for a wonderful price the drug story was a
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ruse according to greg spinato's real motive soon became painfully clear i thought this would be a little more
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private let me show you what i found the club had um an electric shock to it it was a
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it was a taser weapon i knew that i was in a real bad situation i mean nobody saw me go in
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nobody knew where i was i knew i was history we're gonna kill you you ain't walking
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out of here you ain't never seen your kids again what's going on i thought
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this was about the kid you're idioting about him it's about my wife she's still my wife's competition i
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realized that this had nothing to do with her son the whole purpose in sal's mind was to
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um for me to stop seeing his ex-wife i've got a decision to make i've got to
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decide if i want this guy to blow you away or not [Music] look at him look at him
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so i looked up at him and i recognized him this is a guy who had been in my house
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how old did you say the roof was a few weeks earlier greg had listed his home for sale
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he says the man represented himself as a prospective buyer but it now seemed he had been a spy for sal spinato
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and uh we'll be in touch thanks he mentioned his name but i didn't remember it you know
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so as he pulled away i wrote down his license plate number i don't know what possessed me to even think of doing
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that but thank god that i did okay sal i'll do whatever you want i was willing
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to do anything say anything to get out of that house the whole conversation shifted you know
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he had decided that he had decided that he was going to let me live that he wasn't going to kill me but that
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i better come up with a real good story about how to break it off with his wife we're going to go for a little ride we
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got to come up with a plan greg had another plan he went straight to the police they identified paul homer shaffer
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spinato's alleged accomplice from the license number greg jotted down earlier
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schaefer is currently in jail awaiting trial on charges of kidnapping and assault
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salvatore spinata was arrested booked then released on bail he did not show for a scheduled court
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date in january and his whereabouts are currently unknown i think he's a very desperate man
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i think he's gone over the edge of what he's done in the past with this latest incident
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i think he's a very dangerous person and if he would do this what else would he
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do now he's moved into the realm of manipulating people by using violence there's no reason to conclude that he
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won't do it again in the future especially especially if he sees from some point of view he's got nothing to
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lose and he's got to know he's been around the system long enough to know
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that we're looking for him we want him [Music] next they said she'd never live long enough
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to jump rope but that was before christina yumowski's remarkable encounter with a faith-healing priest
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named ralph diorio [Music] the journey from sickness to health is often a mysterious passage at times
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inexplicable even the doctors themselves perhaps most baffling of all other dramatic recoveries attributed to divine
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healing tonight we visit the world of father ralph de orio a catholic priest who's
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been credited with thousands of miraculous healings at father diorio's prayer meetings
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worshipers topple to the floor left and right it is not uncommon to see dozens of
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people sprawled around the room some call it the slaying of the spirit a total surrender of individual will to
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the power of god you might be getting the gift of tears that's a gift too father diorio ministers to ills of the
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body as well as those of the soul though he is quick to point out that any miracle cures are not his work but gods
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it appears that god has chosen me openly clearly publicly and all he needed for me was okay lord i
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want it to be your instrument of speech of thought of touch so i become the visible presence of god
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but god is the divine healer steve christie christina was born with neurofibromatosis stan yumowski and his
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family are among those who speak from experience when they testified of the extraordinary power of diorio's prayers
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it's a degenerative genetic disorder the umowski's ordeal began a few weeks
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before christmas in 1988 it was a proverbial ordinary day mary umowski was immersed in housework
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three-year-old christina was napping on the living room floor sleepy head did you have a good nap
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christina i walked over to her and her eyes were kind of staring up at the ceiling and she didn't respond to me
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sweetie can you hear me her eyes were open but she wasn't acknowledging me she wasn't saying
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anything and she was just making this little girl gurgling sound in her throat christina
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sweet come on come on baby [Music] honey as i dialed the doctor that's when she
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started convulsing not a wild convulsion was basically a tremor on one side of her body
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sweetie christina okay that's all right it's okay i don't know what told me to start
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timing it i remember it started at one o'clock that day december 1st and the
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seizure lasted for 20 minutes i'm sorry but the news is not good christina is suffering
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with neurofibromatosis nf causes tumors to grow on the nerve endings and in christina's case she's developed
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an optic glioma the specialists all agreed the neurofibromatosis was unstoppable it
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would compromise christina's vision disrupt her physical coordination and ultimately take her life
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it was almost a certainty is she going to time i'm afraid that's a possibility you're
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going to have to face we sat down and we cried for weeks on end tears would just come to our our eyes at
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any time during the day or night we couldn't sleep we were devastated by it we were going every six months for
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follow-up mri and hearing the worst news each time that the tumor was growing the disease took its toll
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as expected christina fell far behind her classmates and physical ability there's certain things she would not be
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able to do at all skipping forget about it running i mean the coordination wasn't
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there to do any of these things jumping she couldn't get her feet off the ground
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of course the first question you ask is why why why god why my daughter what did
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she ever do to hurt you you know that type of thing anger set in for a while at the urging of a friend the umowskis
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attended one of father diorio's prayer meetings in february of 1992. stan was deeply skeptical
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his doubts however were outweighed by his desperation i still had some anger in me
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even though i agreed to go i i carried a tape recorder in my pocket and i taped the entire service
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thinking that if this man is a fraud i'll expose them dozens had come to be healed each hoping
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for a personal blessing despite his skepticism stan was determined that christina would be
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chosen are there any children out there who are suffering please raise your hand father
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right here father yes yes father my daughter would you please bring her here to me
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i was so excited and thrilled just for the fact that they got called forward you know after seeing a number of people
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there i thought our chances of even being called or having christina blessed were
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almost nil sweetheart what is your name christina christina now christina do you believe in jesus
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yes do you love jesus yes i love jesus good i'm gonna say a prayer for you right now
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[Music] there are three types of healing there's the physical healing the spiritual
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healing and the psychological healing so god is aiming for all three of these healings
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to give this person a new chance a new a new order a new chapter in the autobiography of that person's life you
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see though stan and mary had come in search of a miracle they had no idea what one
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might look like mommy what is it sweetie mommy how did that man do that do it christina how did he make it so hot what
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are you talking about mommy when that man touched me on my head he made me feel hard
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and then i remembered what father diorio had said during the service about people
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feeling a warmth in their body and then only then me who was all bundled up i was so cold i looked at her
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her hood was down no gloves on her coat was hanging open do you remember when father diorios said that
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when the holy spirit enters your body you might feel warm was it a miracle in the making within two days the answer
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became clear to stan and mary right on the front stoop of this school she starts jumping rope and her feet are
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not just an inch off the ground she's literally jumping a half a foot off the
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ground and not just a couple of jumps she's jumping and she's jumping and i'm looking at her like disbelief
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and she calls out to me mommy how can i do this all of a sudden her words all of a sudden
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hello doctor thanks for calling listen i was wondering if you had a chance to view
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the mris any lingering dumpster dissolved two weeks later when christina's doctor
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called with results from the latest mri well how much is it going down okay all right we'll see it meeting
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we we went to see uh the doctor in in person and um i said well doctor show me where the
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tumor is you you said it was greatly reduced please show me where the tumor is he put
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his finger on this one he said well this is where it was we asked a physician unconnected with
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this case to review two of christina's mris one was made in 1991 almost a year
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before christina's visit to father diorio christina's tumor showed up as
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thickening on a part of the brain known as the optic chiasm the other mri was made in 1992 shortly
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after father diorio's blessing [Music] christina's mri scan in 1992 in the region of the optic chiasm
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appears to be normal it appears that in 1992 the thickening of the optic chiasm has disappeared when
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compared with the previous exam of 1991. in neurofibromatosis there have been rare instances of
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regression of optic nerve gliomas but this is a rare event [Music] it would appear that christina is among
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those rare few recent mris confirmed that in the five years since father diorio bless
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christina the life-threatening tumor has not returned i couldn't jump rope and now i could do
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it very well i couldn't really do anything i couldn't jump or run or anything
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i'm glad that i can do things now and i can keep up with the other kids there are many healings where both
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medicine and prayer are constantly working god works through all his creation and one of god's primary materialistic
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naturalistic scientific ways of healing is through the medical profession i thank god every day for what he's done
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of course i thank father diorio for being the catalyst in that healing absolutely positively was a miracle
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and i could never thank him enough for that [Music] in this age of cold facts and hard
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science is a room for something as unexplainable as an honest-to-god miracle for the umowskis and literally thousands
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of others who believe father deorio's intervention saved them from sickness or
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death the answer is a heartfelt yes next a door-to-door saleswoman has a startling face-to-face encounter with a
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murder suspect [Music] july 31 1995 roebuck south carolina the end of a hot summer day became a
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prelude to mystery for a door-to-door saleswoman we will call shirley it was nice meeting you it's nice doing
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business with you okay i better get at around 6 30 p.m shirley sold a bottle of cleaning fluid to a new customer 27
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year old dana satterfield the mother of two children dana had recently separated from her husband
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she owned and operated her own beauty salon just off state highway 221. she was real nice and you know she told
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me to wait because she wanted to see my product she was real friendly she was outspoken
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real friendly lady [Music] after the sale shirley headed down the road to look for other customers
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an hour later she would pass back by the salon and emerge as the key witness in a
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murder case on her return trip shirley looked in the window and saw that it was 8 11 p.m
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dana was cleaning up getting everything i guess to close up the shop for the night she was like
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wiping out the sink she was standing right between where i left my product at and um i waved at her and i kept going
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at around 8 30 after she made two more calls shirley returned to the salon one final time to wait for her ride home
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i noticed the lights was on and i was gonna go into the shop the beauty shop but i just stopped
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and i said no i bet not going i might get in trouble so i went and stood at the street at the edge of the pavement
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then i noticed i heard a noise a loud thump noise [Music] i kept hearing about two or three thump
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noises i kept looking back the next time shirley turned around someone had turned the lights out
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and i said wow she can really come out then i was happy because you know i wanted to talk to her
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by that time i heard a big crash sound when i looked to my left i noticed a man getting off the ground off his knees
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knocked this grab my bag and i started running shirley thought she had crossed paths
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with a burglar she ran to the liquor store 50 feet away to call the police and we met and we looked at each other
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you know how a crazy person looked when they crazy that's how he looked like he
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was real crazy and he scared me so that's why i had to run again to get away from it
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shirley tried to flag down a motorist when that failed she ran to the nearest house and phone 9-1-1
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a deputy sheriff arrived assuming that the beauty salon had been robbed he had no idea if dana satterfield was
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still inside [Music] dana satterfield had been beaten severely she had been raped she had been strangled
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and there was no indication that robbery was a motive and there was no evidence of any other disturbance in any
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other part of the salon i just couldn't believe that anybody would want to hurt her because
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she never hurt no one she tried to help a lot of people and she did help a lot of people
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initially suspicion focused on dana's husband mike however mike says their breakup was
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amicable in addition mike in no way fit the description of the man seen fleeing from
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the trailer all friends and family and people that knew us know you know that that i didn't
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have anything to do with uh dana's murder because i wouldn't put someone through that or put my
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children through that or i couldn't do something like that we've not ruled anyone out in terms of
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saying that one person or another has absolutely no connection with this case but at this point in time we're not
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actively pursuing mike satterfield as a suspect the police did look into the possibility
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that mike had hired someone to kill his wife but the brutal manner in which dana had
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been raped and strangled was inconsistent with a professional hit we believe this is a predator
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a serial killer a person who would have stalked miss satterfield and waited for an opportunity
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to kill her in the manner that they did i'm sure he didn't anticipate a sales lady
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and and certainly not a sales lady who would make a sale earlier in the evening and then come back by
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and be standing in front of the trailer maybe even while this murder was taking place
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i didn't know what had happened but i knew somebody needed help and i just wanted somebody to get
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somebody there to see what was going on it was pure luck that shirley had come face to face with the alleged killer
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two weeks later another bit of luck a second eyewitness came forward ken smith was one of dana satterfield's
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customers at around 8 40 on the night of the murder he was driving past the salon
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as i come up 221 i looked over at dana's i seen her lights off i seen her car
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sitting there i thought that was odd that she was her car was there without her lights on
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as soon as i turned back around and looked at the road that's where i seen this guy run out of the road to the
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shoulder he turned around and looked at me while he was standing at his bronco he had his hand like in his shirt
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as i come by he sort of just turned around and gave me a you know go to hell look like what are you looking
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at you know why are you looking at me based upon the descriptions of both eyewitnesses police have come up with
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this composite the suspect is 18 to 25 years old he is five foot six to five foot nine inches
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tall and weighs between 145 and 170 pounds he has blonde or light brown hair he's got to be stomped
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and he's got to pay for what he did to my child and if he's done this to somebody else
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we need to stop him now [Music] sometimes i wake up at night and sit straight up
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in bed and see somebody strangling her and i can't get to her it's it's heard a song
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[Music] [Music] coming up a possible break in the olympic park bombing was that attack
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connected to similar bombings which occurred weeks earlier on the other side of the country
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but first some 20 years ago a simple act of kindness launched the career of renowned
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chef moses travis now he wants to find the woman who inspired him to pursue his dream
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[Music] at one time or another we've all done something nice for someone else without
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expecting anything in return whether we realize it or not such acts can occasionally have a profound effect
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every so often a small kindness can completely change a person's life [Music]
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moses travis is one of the country's most critically acclaimed chefs he owns two award-winning mexican
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restaurants in arizona both curiously named such is life how moses acquired that name as at the
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center of his own personal unsolved mystery [Music] in the mid-1970s moses was a day cook at
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a small taco stand on the island of cozumel in mexico he had a reputation for making the best
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tacos in town one of moses favorite customers was an american tourist named judy anderson oh
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hi judy are you unusual yes judy was a school teacher who visited the island seven times over a three-year
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period moses vividly remembers judy and her last visit in 1977. getting me the hotel
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much better she was very nice lady quiet the lady wrote a book all the time and she asked me if i can uh
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if i have time to because she wants to go to the mainland which is across the island which is you know
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15 miles 17 miles across the aisle and the mainland is where all the ruins are the next day moses closed up shop and
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set off with judy on a day-long excursion their destination the mayan pyramids along the yucatan
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peninsula around noon they stopped for lunch and communicated as best they could in
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broken english moses wouldn't you like to own a restaurant like this someday with tables and chairs
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oh yeah you know i dreamed to open a restaurant but you know no money such as life
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excuse me such is life it means that's the way life is you know such is life i like that yeah
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you know what judy when i open my restaurant i want to call sachi's life and put it on the menus and it's like a
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paid idea nothing more was said but deep inside moses an idea had taken root it would begin to blossom later that
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afternoon you know any time you come as the day came to a close it was time to say
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goodbye moses would take a ferry back to the island judy would stay on the mainland
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to catch a flight back to the united states oh no tip no no no no it's not a tip
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before parting judy had an unexpected gift for moses goodbye bye judy when moses opened the envelope he was
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stunned to find five one hundred dollar bills and a hastily written note dear moses go make such his life happen
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love judy moses did just that within a month he had opened his own tiny restaurant on
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cozumel naturally he named it such as life moses eagerly awaited judy's next trip
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to the island but he never saw her again now some 20 years later moses travis is
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a united states citizen his restaurants have been lauded by both local newspapers and the national press
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he and his family live in scottsdale arizona and believe they owe much of their good fortune to the unselfish
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kindness of judy anderson the story helps to understand that it came out of nothing i mean it came out
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of an act of love it's not an act of money or power or it's just an act of love
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moses need just a little push to become a wonderful butterfly she understood what moses had inside
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english such as life she was very wise to let him know that he was good enough to
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become what he is now it will be a very nice surprise for somebody you know like her after 20
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years somebody say they looking for you because you are the one that says i just
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laugh that would be nice no i think that will be more than thank you [Music] next
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two bombings and two bank robberies in spokane washington the terrifying explosion during atlanta's olympic games
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our special report examines possible links that may be much more than coincidence
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[Music] july 27th 1996 atlanta centennial park thousands had gathered to share in the
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excitement of the olympic games but no one realized that a 9-1-1 operator had just received this shocking
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phone call [Music] [Applause] at 1 25 a.m the park became like a war zone two people died
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111 were injured a pipe bomb hidden in a military backpack had exploded next to the atnt
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pavilion the initial suspect was a security guard named richard jewell but after months of investigation he was
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officially cleared i am not the olympic park bomber with a simple statement the investigation threatened to grind to a
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halt then a west coast newspaper published startling new information as some believe could lead to an arrest in the
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olympic bombing the evidence is purely circumstantial but it seems much more than coincidence
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in the newspaper scenario atlanta was a last in a series of attacks that began three months earlier and 3000 miles away
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april fools day 1996 2 36 p.m a customized van pulled up to the rear of the spokesman review spokane
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washington's leading newspaper get out get out call 9-1-1 just then the newspaper's operations manager arrived
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fortunately no one was injured in the blast but the bombers did leave a calling card
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a rambling incoherent diatribe that quoted liberally from the bible and appeared to be an extreme right-wing
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manifesto at that very moment two armed men operating with military-like precision
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entered the u.s bank 20 blocks away the robbers made up with some 70 000 in cash
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they too left a calling card copies of the same rambling diatribe found founded the newspaper
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[Music] three months later another pipeline at a planned parenthood office and another robbery at the same u.s bank
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these surveillance photos would provide the major break in the case when a military surplus dealer in idaho
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recognized a parka worn by one of the gunmen he told authorities he had sold similar
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parches to three men robert berry vern merrell and charles barbie in october of 1996 all three were
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arrested in portland oregon they were allegedly members of an obscure right-wing religious sect
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a year earlier charles barby himself had been interviewed by the spokesman review
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for a series on the anti-government movement barbie said that there may be a time
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when when he and people like him would have to resort to warfare and that they would
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have to blood would have to be shed because because the government was so evil on the day of the arrest no one imagined
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that there might be a possible connection between these three men and the bombing of the olympics
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then in december the fbi released photographs of the type of backpack reportedly used to conceal the bomb in
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atlanta once again the military surplus dealer in idaho came forward with a shocking
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disclosure he proceeded to tell me that that he believed he'd sold a backpack to these
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men that was similar to the military-style backpack the alice pack used in the atlanta bombing
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he said that the men had asked how to get fingerprints off such a backpack and he'd told them just to throw in the
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washing machine and he said they'd asked about a detonator about how to create a
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time-delayed detonator much like the one used in the atlanta bombing and that he
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had given them advice on that the spokesman review immediately launched its own investigation
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more possible links between the spokane and atlanta bombings now came to light what we found was that one of the men
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charles barbie had worked for a t and left the company and discussed because of their support of affirmative action
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and and some other programs and if you will recall the bomb was detonated not far from the atm t
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pavilion within centennial park suggesting that there might have been a motive in addition to that the fbi had obtained
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phone records that showed that there had been telephone calls made from the atlanta area to
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barbie's north idaho home immediately after the bombing in atlanta a backpack
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an alleged grudge against a t several suspicious phone calls the evidence was hardly conclusive but
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it was enough for the spokesman review the paper went public with his findings on super bowl sunday 1997.
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within hours another stunning link between the bombings was revealed an architect in atlanta was watching the
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super bowl he saw during the halftime pictures of the three men who were charged with the bombings up here and
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might have been linked to the bombings in atlanta when he saw the picture of robert berry
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he said to himself and later to others that looks like the man i saw carrying a backpack into centennial park the night
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of the olympic bombing the architect had twice faxed this sketch of the man with a backpack to the
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fbi both times there was no response in january he faxed it to the spokesman review
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for many people the resemblance between the sketch and robert berry is striking was robert berry among the celebrants in
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centennial park on the night of the bombing if so was he responsible for the tragedy
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the fbi has interviewed the architect and investigated the claims of the spokesman review
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they maintain that any connection between the spokane and olympic bombings is quote a creation of the spokesman
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review the newspaper stands by its story [Music] join me next time for another edition of
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unsolved mysteries [Music] [Music] you